Dr. Shaneika Guice, Pharm.D., Class of 2014
Vanderbilt University Medical Center Cardiology Clinical Pharmacist
Shaneika works side-by-side with providers and nurses to care for patients and make decisions on their medication therapy in the Cardiology Outpatient Clinic at the Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute. Her team is focused on the high-risk, heart failure population where medication therapy is essential to decreasing hospitalizations and mortality rates.
Shaneika was hired as a pharmacist with Kroger immediately after graduating from Belmont’s College of Pharmacy, where she formed a strong community among her patients (and even performed life-saving CPR on a Kroger shopper!) After 10 years with Kroger, she moved to an in-hospital pharmacy position with Vanderbilt University Medical Center but quickly began to miss the close connections she formed with her patients. When Complex Cares Services (CCS) started at Vanderbilt a year later, a hiring manager invited her to apply.
Though she didn’t have direct experience with the role, she earned the position thanks to her dedication to caring for patients…an essential part of this position. Shaneika explained, “As the person that I am in Jesus Christ, it is always my mission to love others well. The fact that the hiring manager saw goodness in me and that being true to myself got me in this position blows my mind. I know that is nothing but God’s work.”
She now works in what she calls her dream position, counseling patients on their medication and providing care support that many don’t know they need. Her role helps her remain directly involved with patients to maximize medication therapy and reduce mortality rates. She is even able to be a resource to the community, offering medication education for individuals served by Loaves and Fishes, a local nonprofit providing meals to the hungry six days a week.